[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#618139: marked as done (octave3.2: FTBFS: Nonexistent build-dependency: 'libcurl4-dev')

[Thomas Weber]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 09:54:13PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 22:45 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 08:45:07PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > It won't work on the buildds, however, whether pbuilder handles it or
> > > not.
> [...]
> > 1) If I build the package in a clean chroot, it will work because apt
> > will install one of the providers. 
> [...]
> > > libcurl4-dev is a virtual package with multiple providers, and the
> > > buildd software won't automatically pick between them, so the same
> > > situation will recur.  
> > 
> > Given that both apt and pbuilder easily cope with the situation, this
> > sounds like a missing feature in the buildd software.
> 
> Which version of apt?  0.8.13 certainly doesn't appear to "easily cope"
> - on a system with none of the providers installed:

My bad. I could have sworn I only ever used 
	apt-get build-dep octave3.2
in the chroot. But that doesn't even try to pull in libcurl*.

	Thomas